Shot in Emmental, Switzerland.
Nothing too fancy at PP, it just came out really well (after many trials and errors...)
Basically I boosted dramatically contrast, doing selectively many "levels" adjustments. Finally did some color correction as the colors had gone off by the contrast boost.

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Thanks for the comment, I'm afraid you are mistaken. You're rather fooled by the tilting slope in front of the cottage and the (relatively) small size posted here. If you look at it large you can see that the cottage (which is the only thing to be surely straight) is dead straight, and some vertical poles are also completely vertical.

Thanks a lot! I must say that I've tried similar "recoveries" many times but this was the only one that came out so successful.

Regarding the "original" one, I'm really surprised it finished there ( I'd expect even lower) because if seen alone it's really terrible. But I'm also a bit surprised because I thought that those two challenges were going to be voted in a parallel way (If I'd vote some processed photo for the 1st place, I'd also vote its original 1st too) To be honest I didn't thought we needed an extra challenge for the originals, one challenge where we'd have to submit both "before" and "after" would be enough. I don't find anything interesting in seen (and voting) the originals other than realising what have been done in PP, as these photos were specially selected to be submitted on the sole reason of being crappy enough to need a good amount of PP. If they were any good in the first place then they're not suitable by definition for the "PP challenge"I suppose that's one of the mysteries of the challenges...

I've seen your work from previous challenges, but its really surprising how you have made this into such a great art work (in relation to original challenge). Congratulations I agree with earlier post :)

Interesting image and nicely done but my eye was instantly jarred by it not being straight. I would simply have to give it an anticlockwise twist a couple of degrees. To me that would make it so much better

Beautiful and entrancing image, very much in the style of California serigraph artist, Eyvind Earle, whos work can be seen at http://gallery21.com/serigraphs_eyvind_earle.php

We have one of Earle's works and it is beautiful. Your image would look beautiful in a large format, framed in glossy black. It is the type of image with a striking, yet subtle, sensibility, that one could see every day and not weary of it.

Talk about turning a useless pic into something astounding...I love this photo and know it has done extremely well in previous challenges...just had no idea that the original looked like THAT (ref "original" challenge)!!! Just feel bad for the "original" pic that fared so poor in its own challenge..:)